My personal experience is "RAHMAN CARES FOR HIS FANS FOR SURE !", here is how it went for me and the RAHMANIA group in Pune......
The Wandering souls "RAHMANIA" had participated in the 31'st May 2009 concert in Pune as drummers. We had practiced hard for 5 days straight nonstop as we had very limited time given to us to prepare including arranging 22 drums. After the concert was over, we had gathered behind the stage, all were exhausted but happy that we did not do any mistakes. We noticed ARR exiting the stage through side wings. We all stood in attention as we knew we had this last chance to SEE our Guruji. Getting autographs / photos or even chatting was the last thing we could attempt as we were warned by the Event Management company and moreover, we had seen ARR practicing nonstop the night before so as fans, knew that we have to respect his own space. To our Luck, ARR saw us and walked towards us, and softly spoke something like this "Guys, let's have a group photo" ! Then a mad scramble began to locate cameras and assemble the group of 22 drummers and support team of 6, total 28. Somehow the order was established. In all this commotion, ARR was patiently standing with the group and allowed us to click atleast 100s of photos with him as group. He was so much enthusiastic with the whole scene that he even tried to eject a bystander from the photoframe assuming that he is not part of our group ! All this took 2-3 minutes and ARR was smiling throughout the shoot. After it got over, he said thank you and left the venue. We got some confidence, I though, let's take ARR's autograph on one of the drums we played in the concert. So myself, Anmol Bhave and his wife ran behind ARR and caught up with him and requested for autograph on the instrument as memento. Surprisingly he complied as we were told later that he does not sign instruments or objects. Anmol gave him a ballpen to sign the drum and ARR could not sign as the pen ink could not write on the synthetic drum skin. He enquired something like "Any other pen you have ? "..... Luck was on our side, for some reason, I had kept a PERMANENT MARKER pen in my pocket and I remembered that at that instant. I gave him the pen and he wrote "JAI HO !" on the drum and gave autograph too ! Blaze, Sivamani, Suzanne, Tanwi, Rashid Ali, Roopkumar Rathod, Navin..... all signed almost all the drums ! The wandering souls team will never forget this gesture from ARR and other artist on that day for making us look special when our role in that event was micro-minuscule.... We will cherish these memories forever............ We were helped by kind souls in making this meeting / photo and autograph happen and a thank you to all those without whom this would not have been possible..... Best regards Dinesh Vaidya The Wandering Souls "RAHMANIA" Pune --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Rivjot" <riv...@...> wrote: > > Oh no!! thats really sad Rajib. I really hope you meet sir one day and have > picture with him as well :) > > --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "A.R.Rajib" <a.r.rajib@> wrote: > > > > I went backstage right after the concert ...and he was Gone !! I searched > > everywhere ( It's not easy for someone without an pass to enter these > > areas,but i did all that.I knew security people might shout at me or > > something like that...but i had no fear that time :P )..even asked security > > guards .. no results .. :-( > > I dont want an autograph to be sent to me or anything like that... I'll do > > it myself someday in my lifetime. > >
